1. Owen Davies, ‘Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic’ History, 82 (1997), 252–65. I am grateful to him for sending me a draft of his forthcoming ‘Wesley’s Invisible World:
2. Nuttall (ed.), Calendar, pp. 256, 292–3, 306; John Doddridge Humphreys (ed.), The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge, vol. IV (1830), pp. 548–9
3. Thomas Gibbons, Juvenilia (1750), pp. 68–9.
4. Samuel Hibbert, Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions (Edinburgh, 1825), pp. 224–6
5. Malcolm Deacon, Philip Doddridge of Northampton, 1702–51 (Northampton, 1980), pp. 54, 1166–19, 124–5.